Feature Request ( NodeJS )

[Jonyk56]

With this it is possible to have nodejs and npm installed on a chromeos device w/o the use of crostini, can you possibly make this be added automatically ( about 600mb of space )

[sebanc]

I don't really feel like forcing a 2gb (uncompressed size) toolchain on everyone. Also, the brunch-toolchain does not have to be updated / replaced with each chromeos / brunch version as it is installed on the user data partition.

The idea is that you install the brunch-toolchain once, then build node.js or whatever you need and it will remain available regardless of chromeos / brunch updates.

I have just built the master branch of node.js to test the toolchain and it works, here are the commands I used:

start-toolchain
mkdir -p /usr/local/tmp
cd /usr/local/tmp
git clone -b master https://github.com/nodejs/node.git
cd node
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make -j$(($(nproc)-1))
make install

Alternatively, if you prefer a full linux distro with a package manager you can try brioche.